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Gitolite Essentials. Sophisticated access control for your Git server is now in reach with this fantastic introduction to Gitolite. In easy to follow chapters it takes you through the steps to managing users and repositories securely and efficiently

Gitolite Essentials. Sophisticated access control for your Git server is now in reach with this fantastic introduction to Gitolite. In easy to follow chapters it takes you through the steps to managing users and repositories securely and efficiently

Sitaram Chamarty

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  • Gitolite Essentials
    • Table of Contents
    • Gitolite Essentials
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • Acknowledgments
    • About the Reviewers
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    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • What you need for this book
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 1. Getting Started with Gitolite
      • Common Access Control needs
      • Access Control example with Gitolite
      • Sampling of Gitolites power features
        • Creating groups
        • Personal branches
        • Personal repositories
      • Gitolite and the Git control flow
      • Trying out Gitolite
        • Preparing for the setup
        • Installing and setting up a test instance
        • Playing with Gitolite
      • Summary
    • 2. Installing Gitolite
      • Gitolite users and the hosting user
        • Distinguishing users from each other
      • Preparing the server
      • Getting the Gitolite source
      • Installing the code
      • Setting up Gitolite
        • Creating an ssh key pair
        • Running the setup command
        • Checking over your new Gitolite server
        • Adding a user
        • Adding a repository
      • Summary
    • 3. Your Users and Gitolite
      • Accessing Git repositories
        • Git servers, SSH, and HTTP
      • Accessing Gitolite repositories
        • SSH key pairs
        • Repository naming
      • Getting information from Gitolite
      • Gitolite commands
      • Getting help for commands
      • Troubleshooting SSH issues
        • Authorization, not authentication
        • Duplicate public keys
        • Diagnosing public key problems
        • SSH best practice
      • Summary
    • 4. Adding and Removing Users
      • Adding users
        • Behind the scenes
      • Users with multiple key pairs
      • Giving some users a shell
      • Managing keys outside Gitolite
      • Getting user group information from LDAP
      • Removing users
      • Summary
    • 5. Managing Repositories
      • Adding repositories
      • Adding existing repositories
      • Common problems and troubleshooting
        • Ownership and permissions
        • Converting a non-bare repository to a bare repository
        • Gitolite and the update hook
      • Summary
    • 6. Getting Started with Access Control
      • Basic access control examples
        • Basic branch level access control
      • Lexical syntax of the conf file
      • The syntax of access control rules
      • Branch level access control and refexes
        • Using deny rules
        • The permission field
      • Defining user and repo groups
        • Working with large groups
        • The special @all group
      • The include statement
      • Rule accumulation and delegation
      • Summary
    • 7. Advanced Access Control and Configuration
      • Making changes to the rc file
      • Giving users their own branches
      • Types of write operations
      • Allowing Gitweb and Git-daemon access
        • Locating the projects list file
        • Unix permissions and the umask
      • Specifying Git config values and Gitolite options
        • Deleting a git-config key
        • Substituting the repository name
        • Overriding config values
        • Gitolite options
      • Applying deny rules to read access
      • Understanding VREFs
      • Summary
    • 8. Allowing Users to Create Repos
      • Putting repositories in Sub-directories
      • Repository wildcards
        • Creating a wildcard repository
        • Giving access to other users
        • Generalizing the ruleset
      • Explaining wild repos to your users
      • Managing with just wild repos
      • Deleting wild repositories
      • Summary
    • 9. Customizing Gitolite
      • Core and non-core Gitolite
      • Types of non-core code and examples
        • Commands
        • Syntactic sugar
        • Triggers
        • Virtual refs
      • Writing your own non-core code
      • Summary
    • 10. Understanding VREFs
      • Migrating update hooks
      • Passing arguments to the VREF code
      • Using the permission field
        • Maintaining the update hook function
      • Default is success
      • Example VREFs and their usage
      • Writing your own VREF
      • Summary
    • 11. Mirroring
      • Terminology and basic concepts
        • Repository level mirroring
        • The gitolite-admin repository
      • Setting up mirroring
        • Example setup
        • Bootstrapping the mirroring process
        • Mirroring other repositories
      • Local repositories and hostname substitution
      • Redirecting pushes
      • Manual synchronization
      • Switching to a different master
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Titel: Gitolite Essentials. Sophisticated access control for your Git server is now in reach with this fantastic introduction to Gitolite. In easy to follow chapters it takes you through the steps to managing users and repositories securely and efficiently
  • Autor: Sitaram Chamarty
  • Originaler Titel: Gitolite Essentials. Sophisticated access control for your Git server is now in reach with this fantastic introduction to Gitolite. In easy to follow chapters it takes you through the steps to managing users and repositories securely and efficiently.
  • ISBN: 9781783282388, 9781783282388
  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2014-04-11
  • Format: E-book
  • Artikelkennung: e_3ba7
  • Verleger: Packt Publishing